On Thu, Jan 15, 2009 at 03:55:51PM +0000, Dave Wilson wrote:

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> Khalid Schofield wrote:

> > Dev's.

> >

> > What are the chances of getting a port of ZFS to OpenBSD? I can't quite

> > bring myself to run solaris since it lacks so much of what I love about

> > OpenBSD and Linux is back to square one because of the reasons I moved

> > to OpenBSD.

>

> Given the Dev's have answered this one before, and have better things to

> do, I shall take it upon myself. I'm sure they will correct me if I'm

> mistaken.

>

> The ZFS code is under a license which the OpenBSD team have deemed

> incompatible with the BSD License they use. [0]

>

> Whilst there could be a FUSE-based implementation of ZFS on OpenBSD, and

> indeed I think one may have already been started, to properly take

> advantage of the strength of ZFS the code would have to be in the

> kernel. Performance will suck if nothing else.

>

> If its not BSD-licensed code, its not going in the kernel. End of

> discussion. Said policy has been a universal truism of OpenBSD since it

> began.

As marco already stated, it could be a kernel module.  But it won't.

Why?  Because nobody will write it.  End of discussion, the rest is

noise.
P.S.  Personally, as much as I'd love to see ZFS in OpenBSD, I think

dtrace would be much more useful.
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Jason Dixon

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